
Viruses
From Understanding to Investigation
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Description
Key Features
- Employs a comparative strategy to emphasize unique structural and molecular characteristics that inform transmission, disease processes, vaccine strategies and host responses
- Presents a review of host cell and molecular biology and the immune system
- Features topical areas of research, including genomics in virus discovery, the virome, and beneficial interactions between viruses and their hosts
- Includes text boxes throughout with experimental approaches used by virologists
- Covers learning objectives for each chapter, methods and advances, question sets, quizzes and a glossary
Readership
Students and professors in virology, molecular biology and microbiology; researchers entering the virology, infectious disease, and immunology research
Table of Contents
1. A brief introduction to virology
2. The virus replication cycle
3. Virus structure
4. How we study viruses
5. Molecular and cell biology of the eukaryotic cell
6. Virus interactions with the host
7. Antiviral responses
8. An introduction to RNA viruses
9. Picornaviridae
10. Caliciviridae
11. Flaviviridae and Togaviridae
12. Order Nidovirales
13. Order Mononegavirales
14. Bunyaviridae
15. Arenaviridae
16. Orthomyxoviridae
17. Reoviridae
18. Introduction to DNA viruses
19. Poxviridae
20. Circoviridae
21. Parvoviridae
22. Papillomaviridae
23. Polyomaviridae
24. Adenoviridae
25. Herpesviridae
26. Viruses that use reverse transcription
27. The human hepatitis viruses
28. Evolution and genetics of viruses
29. Immune responses to viruses
30. Vaccines: Principles and approaches
31. Antiviral drugs and treatment strategies
32. Viral vectors and gene thereapyAppendix 1. The viruses we know -- lists, tables of taxonomy
Appendix 2. Biochemical methods to study viruses -- analyzing proteins and nucleic acids
Appendix 3. Tables describing morbidity and mortality (WHO)
Appendix 4. Glossary
Product details
- No. of pages: 352
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: August 10, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128031100
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128031094
About the Author
Susan Payne
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
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Christopher R. Mon May 14 2018
Viruses : From understanding to Investigation. Susan Payne. Publ. Academic Press.
As a Master’s degree Programme Leader I like to keep abreast with the latest textbooks in my area and I am aware of four, fairly similar, although very good, virology textbooks that have been published over the last couple of years. Viruses: From Understanding to Investigation is now the fifth. I must admit, I’m still a little perplexed by the title. It isn’t so different from the other recently-published textbooks, and is probably most similar to Molecular Virology of Human Pathogenic Viruses by Ryu, also published by Academic Press. In my opinion the most significant difference between these books is that Viruses: From Understanding to Investigation is almost twice the price (£55 vs £99 for the paperback versions). One might be prepared to pay extra for a more up-to-date book but these books are only a year apart so I do not understand why there is so much difference in price. Having said that, Viruses: From Understanding to Investigation is a very good virology textbook, covering viral structures, interactions with the host cell, techniques used to study viruses, transmission, immunity, evolution and pathogenesis, before focusing in on details of each family of RNA and DNA viruses. The illustrations are very clear and engaging, making it a very attractive and informative textbook. I’m sure that enthusiastic undergraduates and postgraduate students will find this book very helpful in their understanding and investigation of viruses, but if they do purchase a textbook, I strongly suspect they will opt for a cheaper one.